| 25-568 |
Jaime Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brand-identity intellectual-property platform-rights social-media trademark user-generated-content |
Who owns the trademark for a user-created online community on a social media platform: the social media platform that provides the technical infrastru… |
| 23-5612 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law copyright due-process judicial-review legal-precedent patent property-rights statutory-interpretation trademark |
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2) LT oined ah Pakerts Ard (beyvignes
that BVI Finale ny Shoe lev A Ar… |
| 23-68 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law |
1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 22-1249 |
Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law |
Under 15 U.S.C. § 1065, certain trademarks are incontestable. All Circuits considering the issue, except the Eleventh, do not presume that an incontes… |
| 22-704 |
Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Steve Elster |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
first-amendment free-speech government-official public-figure registration section-1052c trademark trademark-registration |
Whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism o… |
| 22-6126 |
Jeffrey Salt v. Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-contempt civil-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intellectual-property non-party non-party-injunction trademark trademark-dispute |
Were Jeffrey Salt's fifth amendment due process rights violated when the District Court, in a federal civil trademark case between two corporations, r… |
| 22-483 |
Paige Lee, et al. v. Anthony Lawrence Collection, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure federal-rules infringement joinder licensing nonparty-joinder rule-19 standing trademark trademark-joinder trademark-licensing |
Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 19(a), the joinder of IP owners/licensors as plaintiffs alongside licensees is required to prevent double recov… |
| 21-1527 |
CustomPlay, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure america-invents-act due-process inter-partes-review patent patent-law patent-rights patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation trademark |
1. Whether the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) violated the statutory text and legislative intent of the America Invents Act (AIA) by delegating the… |
| 21-1043 |
Abitron Austria GmbH, et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) |
civil-procedure extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality foreign-sales lanham-act territorial-rights trademark trademark-infringement u.s.-commerce us-commerce |
Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to petitioners' foreign sales, including purely foreign sales that ne… |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
For at least a decade, the petitioner has been using the registered and now-incontestable trademark "Freelancer" in commerce with various goods and se… |
| 20-1829 |
Deafueh Monbo v. Eric Blair |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
|
bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-code chapter-7-bankruptcy copyright copyright-infringement discharge in-re-green-v-staples trademark trademark-infringement willful-and-malicious |
1. Question: Whether the Bankruptcy Court erred when the Bankruptcy Court failed to recognize that Section 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code prohibits … |
| 20-1589 |
Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law |
1. Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 106… |
| 20-1552 |
Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing |
1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that
respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel
petitioner's trademark registration even … |
| 20-873 |
Herman Miller, Inc. v. Blumenthal Distributing, Inc., dba Office Star |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure household-name jury-trial standard-of-review trade-dress trademark |
Where the appellate court in this action substituted its own findings of fact in place of a jury verdict; and where it is undisputed that the jury was… |
| 19-1232 |
Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights disparagement first-amendment lanham-act matal-v-tam standing trademark trademark-law trademark-registration |
1. In Matal v. Tam , 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), this Court
held that the disparagement clause of Section 2(a) of
the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), whi… |
| 19-48 |
B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
|
bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness |
Under Section 14(3) of the Lanham Act an allegation of fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) can arise in multiple contexts. A fraudul… |
| 19-46 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure generic-term generic-terms intellectual-property lanham-act online-business top-level-domain trademark trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration uspto |
Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (".com") to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark. |
| 18-1309 |
Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration |
Applicants for trademark registration dissatisfied with a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board can commence a civil action seeking de novo… |
| 18-8383 |
Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property |
First,
Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust and/or racketeering conspiracy, intending by a pattern o… |
| 18-1159 |
The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection |
Religious organizations frequently confront claims that their names are generic and ineligible for trademark protection. Courts are divided over such … |
| 18-1037 |
Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
|
administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab |
Facing disputed marks with words in or originated in foreign language and foreign cultural symbol, judges should first get to know the true meaning of… |
| 18-382 |
Raji Rab v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
California |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-designation ballot-position constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-codes equal-protection federal-candidate federal-election trademark trademark-violation |
Whether the California Secretary of State has mandatory duties to preserve equal protection of constitutional rights of Federal candidate's ballot des… |
| 18-302 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech government-speech immoral immoral-marks lanham-act scandalous scandalous-marks trademark trademark-registration |
Whether Section 1052(a)'s prohibition on the federal registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" marks is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause … |